Re: Serial ATA drives and Windows XP

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From: peter (peter_at_nomalarky.net)
Date: 05/02/04 

Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 22:58:38 -0600

Follow the Western Digital instructions
My Sata uses a SATA power cable to the PSU and a Input cable to the MOBO.
The BIOS recognices them and I set the boot order to CD as 1st SCSI(SATA)or HD-0
as 2nd
Place the SATA drivers on a floppy disk
During the XP install it will ask you if your running unusual Harware(RAID
etc)at wich point it also instructs you to push F6 if you are.It will then look
to thefloppy for the SATA drivers and the rest of the installation should go
smoothly.
peter
"Kevin" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:70be01c42ffb$f7eb5b70$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> I just purchased a new system with the Intel D875PBZ
> motherboard and 2 Western Digital "S" ATA (Serial ATA)
> hard drives.
> I have not been able to find any step by step
> instructions or any info at all on Windows/Microsofts
> website regarding the installation of SATA hard drives.
> I am very confused about the power supply of SATA drives.
> Using the Secure Connect cable, it gets connected to BOTH
> the "power input" and the "interface input" on the back
> of the SATA drive and then plugs into the SATA input on
> the motherboard. I am also using the regular 4 pin legacy
> power connector also. On Western Digitals website, they
> advise that you should NOT use BOTH power connectors, but
> if I only use the SATA power connector and NOT the 4 pin
> legacy connector, Windows XP Pro does NOT recognize the
> drives during installation. I am NOT using any SATA
> controller card, I am plugging them directly into the
> motherboard so it should work ok.
>
> Does anyone know how to install these SATA drives and
> install WIndows on them? I am getting nothing but errors
> when trying to install windows using both power
> connectors.
>
> Please advise and THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!!!!!
> Kevin

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